Chapter 2

Chiba, Magnet High School

The bell rang signalling the end of the last class of the day: Biology. Setting down his chalk and turning to his students, Aaron Warren, a middle aged American man with a balding head and mustache; smiled in bewilderment at the remarkable difference that Japanese students had from the American students he used to teach.

"Everyone, read chapter 9 by tomorrow and we'll go over what you've learned next time." he gave out his assignment. "Your all dismissed, except for Kosaka and Tamura. I need you two to see me after everyone is gone." he stated and got busy picking up his paper work from the his desk.

"You wanted to see." Kyosuke spoke up getting Warren's attention as he and Manami stood in front of his desk.

"Ah yes!" Warren replied and cleared his throat. "Kosaka, Tamura do you two remember the field trip we took back in April to Curt Connors labs in the Chiba institute of Technology?" he asked as away to start the conversation.

'How could I forget?' Kyosuke thought as he remembered the spider that bit him that day.

"Hmm," Manami hummed in answer as she nodded. "I remember! It was a really impressive lab, I specially liked how they were studying different animal species and how they're natural abilities could be used to help improve everyday life."

"Wonderful." Warren responded as he clapped his hands together. "Dr. Connors contacted me about two open internships within his laboratory and I thought of my two best students." he said as he looked at them expectantly.

"Really?" Kyosuke asked his voice gaining an edge of excitement. "You want us to internship at Chiba Tech?"

"Of course," Warren replied. "You two have outshone yourselves in my class and I couldn't picture anyone I would rather take those internships."

Turning there heads to one another, Manami and Kyosuke smiled before looking back at Warren and answering.

"We'll do it!" they answered in unison.

"Excellent!" Warren answered as he riffle through his desk and pulled out two pieces of papers. "You'll start today. Just change out of your uniforms before you go and take your school Ids with you." he explained while handling over the papers.

Outside 3:25pm

Walking down the street together, Manami, Kyosuke and Hari talked about the internships that Warren had set up for the two.

"Can't say Warren-sensei made a mistake." Hari said as they walked along. "You two really do well in science class."

"Hari-kun, your embarrassing me." Manami answered with a giggle at his statement.

"Huh why?" Hari asked raising a red colored eyebrow. "You two spend the most time I know studying and thanks to your help I've improved my own grade."

"She's just being bashful." Kyosuke answered with a smile as he placed his hand on Manami's shoulder. "So how did you do in class today?" Kyosuke asked changing the subject.

"Well I guess, since I wasn't as lost as I usually am." Hari answered with a shrug. "Though was it just me or were a lot of todays subjects focused on brothers and sister?" he asked thinking about his relationship with his own sister.

"Huh? I didn't really notice." Kyosuke answered as they reached the intersections were they usually separated. "Anyway see you tomorrow Hari, I got to get home to get ready for the internship."

"Oh?" Hari asked with curiosity as they all stopped. "At what time do you need to be at the lab anyway?"

"Tonight at seven, but why do you want to know?" Manami asked.

"That's great, that means you guys have enough time to come hang out at my place before you have to go." Hari replied with a smile on his face.

"Sorry, but I want to try doing the modifications to the mixers at home before I head to the internship." Manami answered with a shake of her head.

"Oh." Hari said as he his head hung down a bit his hopes were dashed. 'Kyosuke probably won't come if Manami doesn't, but what heck.' he thought before he spoke up. "Kyosuke, what about you?"

"Hmm." Kyosuke hummed as he contemplated the offer before nodding. "Sure why not? I don;t really have anything to do and I know better than to get in Manami's way when she's tinkering."

"Awesome!" Hari answered as his hopes rose up again. "Then I'll see later! Manami-chan, I'll see you tomorrow." he said as he departed and went down the road leading to the right.

"Hehehehe." Manami giggled causing Kyosuke to look at with a raised brow. "Kyo-chan, your really started to make an effort to have Hari as your friend." she said as she patted him on the head.

"What's that suppose to mean?" he asked wondering where this was coming from.

"It's just before you only wanted to live a normal life and avoided anything that you would think was weird or unusual." she answered and nodded in the direction Hari walked off to. "I'm glad to see that your really growing as a person." she stated before saying goodbye and making her way home.

Watching her go for a couple of seconds, Kyosuke smiled before turning to head home.

'I can't exactly live a normal life anymore, so why even try.'

Entering his house and closing the door behind him, Kyosuke called out to his family as he took off his shoes.

"Tadaima!"

Not being bothered by the lack of response from anyone who maybe home, Kyosuke put on his slippers and walked towards the door that led to the living room. Opening the door he saw his younger sister, Kosaka Kirino as she laid down on the couch talking into her cell phone and kicking her legs.

"Yeah, I went there too!" Kirino responded to the person she was talking too as her brother closed the door and walked towards interconnected kitchen. "That place is crazy!"

"But don't you think the service stinks?" Kirono asked as Kyosuke looked into the walked into the kitchen and headed for the refrigerator. "They ignored me the first time." she said with a laugh.

"You too Ayase?" she asked with mirth. "Yeah, the one with the fat legs!"

"What? That's just so dumb!" she continued to talk, as Kyosuke opened the fridge and pulled out a carton of tea and placed it on the counter, closing the door once he did. "No way, the other one. The place Kanako told us about!"

Pouring himself a couple of tea as he over heard his sister's conversation Kyosuke shook his head and drank it all down in one gulp.

"Haa." he sigh as he felt himself become refreshed and placed the cup in the sink. Opening the hot water faucet to clean off the remaining residue, 'I'm glad to see she's still so carefree.' he thought as she continued to talk.

"Oh, what was it again..." Kirono responded before falling into another fit of giggles. "Yeah! Yeah, you don't remember?"

'Even if she doesn't treat me like I'm her brother.' he thought as he closed the faucet and poured out the glass before replacing it. Turning around he headed out of the kitchen and towards the door he walked in through, to head to his room and change his clothes. Kyosuke had been halfway up the stairs when he remembered that he had left the tea carton on the counter and turned heading back down the stairs. When he was about to reach the door, it swung open in a hurry surprising him enough that he didn't have time to react when Kirino ran out of the living and they crashed into each other.

Falling back and away from one another, Kyosuke saw as Kirino dropped her bag as she landed.

'Oh boy!' he thought as he got to his feet and moved to help her. 'I'm obviously going to get chewed out.'

"Sorry." he said as he got to his feet and she crawled towards her bag. "I should have stopped sooner." he continued as he reached her and bent down to help her with her bag.

"Don't touch it!" Kirino yelled as she slapped his hand away, shocking him a little at her behavior.

Getting back to his feet, Kyosuke watched as she finished gathering her things before walking over to the wooden shoe rack and placing her green slippers inside before putting on her shoes.

"I'm going out." she said as she tapped her shoes and opened the door.

"Not what I was expecting." Kyosuke said aloud as Kirino closed the door behind her. "Oh well, i guess- hmm." he stopped and hummed as he noticed something on the floor under the slightly raised wall beside the front door. Walking over, he kneel down and pick up the object with his left hand, getting his first real look at it.

"Gah!" he grunted in surprise at seeing a DVD case with an illustration, of a small pink haired girl. "What's this doing in our home?" he thought aloud, when his spider senses started to tingle. Jumping back Kyosuke used his school satchel to push-off the wall towards the stairs; spinning around and landing on the stairs just as the door was opened.

"Tadaima." Kyoko called out as he began to walk up the stairs.

"Welcome back." he greeted as he turned his head to greet the DVD hidden by the rest of his body and his bag in his other hand.

"Did you finally tell Manami-chan that you like her?" she asked half in jest, knowing how her son usually reacts.

"No, no, of course not." he answered in a strained voice. "Manami and I are just friends." he continued before heading up the stairs.

"Hmm." she hummed as she watched him go, before heading into the living room. "That boy is hiding something."

Inside his room, Kyosuke had changed from his school inform into a set if brown cargo pants a grey sweater and a blue sleeveless hoodie. Looking at the DVD that he had found just laying innocently on his bed, he thought about who could it possibly belong too.

'It couldn't possibly belong to dad.' he thought as he remembered his father strictly forbidding him from watching anime as a kid. 'He's always made his stand on anime well known.'

'Mom is a possibility, but I doubt it.' he thought as he came to the only possible conclusion. 'So it belongs to Kirino. It would explain why she slapped me when I tried to help with her bag.'

"I really don't have time for this." he said aloud and grabbed his satchel opening it and taking out his web shooters, walking towards his closet he reached inside and took out a white satchel with a strap before placing it over his shoulders. Opening the satchel, he placed hi web shooters inside along with some note books and pens that he could use to take notes; stopping in front of his bed he thought about it for a second before placing the dvd case inside the satchel and heading out.

Once he was back down stairs he opened the door to the living room to see his mother working on dinner. Hearing the door open, she turned and gave him a curious look as she him fully dressed.

"Kyosuke are going anywhere?" Kyoko asked.

"Ah," he asserted with a nod. "I'm heading to Akagi's place today to wait until I have to go to my internship at Chiba Tech."

"Internship?" Kyoko asked as a smile came to her face. "What kind of internship?"

"Warren-sensei arranged for Manami and I to work with Connors-sensei at his lab in Chiba Tech." he answered happy to see his mothers interest.

"Kyosuke that's great!" Kyoko exclaimed as she walked up to her son and hugged him. "At what time is the internship?" she asked as she pulled away.

"At seven." Kyosuke answered. "So I don't know if I'll be back in time for dinner, so I was thinking of picking something up-"

"Nonsense." Kyoko interrupted. "I'll wrap up your dinner and leave it on the counter for when you get back."

"Arigatou, Kaa-san!"

"Alright now get going, we wouldn't want you getting there late on your first day."

Chiba Skyline, 6:30pm

'How did things end up this way?' Kyosuke thought as he swung from web to web avoiding being shot up by the military helicopter that had started attacking him when he tried to save, Akagi Noman; with Kirino screaming and clinging on to him for dear life.

Swinging to his left he avoided another missile and shot a web towards the nearest building; swinging himself in front of the helicopters cockpit. When he saw the pilot smile and flew the helicopter forward to ram him. Spider-Man launched to webs towards each side; tied them together and let gravity do it's job as the helicopter rammed into the web line and got thrown backwards forcing the pilot to try to gain its balance.

Seeing his chance, Spider-Man launched two web lines at the mounted machine gun and missile launcher and swung towards the helicopters back before pulling and ripping them off the helicopters bottom. Landing on the side of a building, he put out his hands and caught the machine gun and missile launcher, before racing vertically to the top of the building. With one big lead, Spider-Man landed on top of the building and threw the weapons to the side as he ran towards the roof top access door.

"Hey kid!" he said as he stopped in front of the door and removed Kirino from his body. "Listen you have to get out here, I've already disabled there weapons but they're going to come for me any second now; so you have to run!"

"B-but," Kirino stuttered still shaken from her impromptu ride. "W-what are you going to do?" she asked as he moved forward and kicked the door open.

"Don't worry about me." Spider-Man as the helicopter hovered above the building and two men jumped out. "Just get to safety and call the police, I have these guys wrapped up for them as an early Christmas present." he explained with confidence as he move between her and the two men.

"Okay!" Kirino called out as she turned and ran through the doors heading down the stairs.

'Good at least I won't have to worry about her anymore.' he thought as the two men approached.

Earlier:Akagi residence, 5:45 pm

Sitting in the living room, Hari and Kyosuke were playing a fighting game to pass the time until six O'clock when Kyosuke would be leaving.

"Yes!" Hari yelled as he knocked Kyosuke's character out of the arena earning himself the victory. "Winner and still champion!" Hari gloated as Kyosuke sigh and placed the controller down.

"This games cheats." Kyosuke commented feeling that he should at least put the effort into being a sore loser, after having been defeated over twenty times in roll.

"The game doesn't cheat." Hari retorted with a shake of his head. "Your just no good a video games."

"Yeah, yeah." Kyosuke said as he shook his head and looked at the clock. "Looks like I should get going soon though."

"Hmm." Hari hummed as he looked at the clock as well. "Man time really did fly huh?" he commented not expecting an answer as he moved towards the his latst game system and turned it off. "So how are you getting to Chiba Tech anyway?" he asked wondering if his friend would make it with so little time.

"The usual," Kyosuke replied with a shrug. "I'll just take the subway and run as fast as my legs can carry me."

"I got better idea." Hari replied as he walked towards the door that led to his kitchen. "My dad is going get back soon and I'm sure he wouldn't mind giving you a ride." he called out as he walked into the kitchen.

"That's alright, I wouldn't want to impose." Kyosuke replied raising his voice enough for Hari to hear him.

"It's not a problem." Hari said as he came back with two bottles of water and handed one to Kyosuke. "Besides you wouldn't be imposing, my dad really likes you and thinks that you're a good influence on me." he explained with a shrug as he sat down beside his friend.

"Really?" Kyosuke asked wondering when that happened.

"Well yeah, you know my dad's a scientist and he does a lot of work in the community." he said between gulps of his water. "He thinks that with your background in science and how well you do in school, that you would be a great addition his company in the future."

"Oh!" Kyosuke said as he felt himself flushing in embarrassment. "I didn't think your dad would take notice of high schools students work."

"You kidding?" Hari asked as though he grown a second head. "Kyosuke you've had to top score in school since elementary school. In the whole country there are only a handful of students who do better than you do and that's only because you don't put in a much work as they do." he explained before sighing. "Sometimes I wish I had your talent with school, that way my dad could take notice of me instead of just criticizing the things I do."

"Hari." Kyosuke began as his friends mood did a one-eighty. "You shouldn't put yourself down so much, your grades have been improving since last year and you're in the top 20's in school this year."

"I know but for my dad-" he stopped as he heard the door open and turned to look over the couch they were sitting in to see Akagi Noman walked through the front door. "Hey dad I-"

"Unless your going to tell me that you finally made the top ten in school or even joined a sports team I don't want hear it." Akagi interrupted his son in a cool voice as he closed the door behind him, still reading over some papers in his hands. "Where are your mother and sister?" he asked as he kept on reading.

"They're out." Hari answered in clipped tone.

"Out whe-" Akagi stopped as he looked up and saw Kyosuke sitting next to his son. "Kosaka, it's good to see you again. How are things going in school?" he asked his tone showing that he had a genuine interest.

"They're going fine." Kyosuke replied feeling uncomfortable with the attention. "I was actually about to leave, I have an internship at Connors-sensei's lab that I need to get too."

"Connors eh?" Akagi asked as he walked towards them. "Well if you get bored with Connors contact me, my company will always have a place for someone as bright as you."

"Ah." Kyosuke replied with a nod as he got to his feet and grabbed his satchel placing it over his shoulder. "I should get going though I don't want to late after all."

"Actually dad, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." Hari spoke up his voice still strained. "Since Kyouske has to go all the way to Chiba Tech on the subway I was wondering if could borrow your car?"

"Of course, I'll call Buruno and tell-Augh!" Akgi was telling them when he stopped in front one of his windows and began reaching for his phone. When a figure burst through the window showering him with glass, forcing him to protect his face.

"How dare you break into my-" he began as he turned to the figure that was hovering in the air in front of him. "Toomes!"

"Hello Akagi." Toomes replied. "Time for some payback for everything you did to me." he continued and with a flap of his green colored wings shot towards Akagi.

The red-haired man tried to run but Toomes was to quick, as he grabbed him with his talon like boots and flew out the window with him.

"Dad!" "Akagi-san!"Hari and Kyosuke yelled as they ran to the window and saw Akagi be carried away.

"Hari, go down stairs and wait for your mother and sister." Kyouske said as he pulled out his cell phone and dial the police department. "I keep a look out for your dad and tell the police what direction they're going." he continued as he took the phone to his ears and ran towards the nearest balcony.

"Right!" Hari replied wondering when Kyosuke became so reliable and ran out the door.

"Yes! Hello, my name is Kosaka Kyosuke I would like to report a kidnapping!" Kyosuke spoke as the dispatcher came on the line. "It's Akagi Noman, he got taken by some man in a flying suit. No this is not a joke, the man is flying east towards the harbor by Ame No avenue!" After describing the man and being assured they would send in a police dispatch, Kyouske hung up his cell phone and reached into his satchel taking out his web shooters.

'By the time they reach him it could be to late.' he thought as he jumped off the balcony.

As he was falling, Kyouske put on his web shooters and reached into his pockets for his gloves and mask. Once he had them on he took shot a web towards the nearest building and swung away taking of his street clothes as he did and placing them in the in satchel before throwing it on top of a building. As he swung away, Kyosuke didn't notice that in the hurry to take out his web shooters he dropped the Hoshikuku Witch Meru DVD on the balcony floor.